AWS Data Platform Engineer - Remote Healthcare Analytics

SSG Official Website; Ocala (FL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Data Platform Engineer to lead modernization of a healthcare data platform. You will evolve a MSSQL/XML object store toward a scalable AWS architecture enabling SQL-based reporting for business users.

Responsibilities include evaluating AWS data services, designing migration paths, building a reporting layer, and implementing IaC with CDK/CloudFormation. Collaboration with stakeholders and a .NET team is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software or data engineering with a strong AWS focus.
• Experience architecting cloud data platform migrations in production.
• Proven ability to select AWS data services to meet reporting needs.
• Experience delivering analytics for non-technical users.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience: S3, Athena, Glue, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch.
• Strong SQL for relational queries on XML/JSON data.
• Experience with XML-heavy data stores and data transformations.
• Ability to balance cost, performance, and business requirements.
• Familiarity with BI tooling (Athena/QuickSight/Redshift) and CI/CD practices.
• Proficient with Git and GitHub; strong documentation habits.

Responsibilities

• Lead the healthcare data platform modernization effort.
• Migrate XML MSSQL data to AWS in a scalable architecture for reports.
• Design a SQL-based reporting layer for business users.
• Evaluate AWS data storage and query options (S3+Athena, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift, OpenSearch).
• Architect XML object-store migration, including storage formats and partitioning.
• Build and maintain AWS data catalog, schemas, and metadata for discoverability.
• Optimize query performance and cost across AWS services.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to translate reporting needs into data models.
• Coordinate with .NET engineers on data flow from EDI pipelines.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using AWS-native tooling and IaC practices.
• Document architecture decisions and data dictionaries for diverse audiences.

Skills

AWS

SQL

XML

Data architecture

CI/CD

IaC

Git

Jira

Agile

Documentation

BI tooling

OpenSearch

S3

Athena

Redshift

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

AWS

CodePipeline

CodeBuild

CodeDeploy

CDK

CloudFormation

Terraform

GitHub

Job description

Syms Strategic Group, LLC seeks a Data Platform Engineer to lead modernization of a healthcare data platform. You will evolve a MSSQL/XML object store toward a scalable AWS architecture enabling SQL-based reporting for business users.

Responsibilities include evaluating AWS data services, designing migration paths, building a reporting layer, and implementing IaC with CDK/CloudFormation. Collaboration with stakeholders and a .NET team is required.